US Patent Issued to Solstice Advanced Materials US on Aug. 11 for "Molybdenum sputtering target assembly and method of making" (Washington, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,907, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Solstice Advanced Materials US Inc. (Morris Plains, N.J.).

"Molybdenum sputtering target assembly and method of making" was invented by Xiaodan Wu (Spokane, Wash.), Jaeyeon Kim (Liberty Lake, Wash.), Susan D. Strothers (Mead, Wash.), Rashmi Mohanty (Liberty Lake, Wash.) and Alicia Im (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molybdenum sputtering target assembly includes molybdenum sputtering target diffusion bonded directly to a molybdenum backing plate. The molybdenum sputtering target consists of molybdenum and the molybdenum backing plate consists of molybdenum or a molybdenum alloy." ...